Creativity
When you see the world
As devoid of something
Only you can bring to life
You create magic
And if you fail,
You can still take comfort
In knowing you attempted
the impossible
Not the easy
simp 4 satoshix.comBill Bernbach, founder of advertising agency DDB, reminds us that it is not enough to be right — you must also be compelling:
"A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead."
"A dull truth will not be looked at. An exciting lie will. That is what good, sincere people must understand. They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead."
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Ideas are not an inherited part of us, they’re outside of us, travelling around. They express themself through us, we’re just a vehicule for creativity to navigate.
Art is the powerful channel through which we communicate and resonate with our higher spirits, with our greater god(s).
When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator’s creativity within us and our lives. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is
... See moreJulia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Creative people understand that inspiration can come from almost anywhere, so the more content you consume, the more interests you cultivate, and the more things you learn, the more likely you will find a new idea. You must be someone willing to immerse yourself in a large and wide variety of content, not limiting yourself to your field or your
... See moreElysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
Good ideas, he argues, arrive when someone commits to playing with ideas that are just at the periphery of lived experience, just beyond the present state. It takes intentional effort to get to these ideas, because you must take the time and expend the energy to toy with combinations of ideas that might not work.